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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.015110.10523@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 23 Nov 89 01:51:10 GMT
References: <10413@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <10413@encore.Encore.COM> by cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook):
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| [allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) recently posted that: 
| |Like it or not, the Usenet exists at the whim of the people who pay for it.
| |Antagonize them and you'll have to find someone else to pay for it, or the
| |net dies.  The phone company isn't going to be impressed with your arguments;
| |they expect to be paid.  (Disbelievers are invited to subscribe to
| |alt.cosuard.)
| 
| I have no problems with that.  I'd point out to you that telephone costs
| are becoming a "cost of doing business" line item these days.  I'd further
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Which is perfectly all right when you're in business.  Ncoast is not a
business, we do not charge for use (although we request donations), and Rich
Garrett pays a heck of a lot of money monthly with NO return.  None.  So you
are going to order him to continue doing it, or threaten us with some ill-
defined shunning?  B*llsh*t.  If the Usenet ever came down to that, ncoast
would most assuredly drop it completely because it's no longer worth the
hassle.  But in any case, your "shunning" would have been initiated on *our*
end already, so threatening to cut off what we have already refused is pretty
meaningless.

All this stuff and nonsense about "the will of the majority" with respect to
propagation of the Usenet is worth exactly ZERO when you don't want to pay the
monthly bills required to be involved with it.  You'd do as well to cite the
will of the majority in demanding a free newsfeed from UUNET (and good luck).

++Brandon
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